Phillipsburg herald. [volume] (Phillipsburg, Kan.) 1882-1905, 1887-07-02
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STOCK AND FARM

horse but 1t is to breed his exact match.
Farmers should pay more attention to
breeding horses that have good feet and
legs. Sound feet and legs count more
than mere weight.
Kansas seems determined this year o
silence the last false prophet, and 60 for
ever shut the mouths OF those who pre-
dict failure OF crops, etc.
The Richster boys Of Silver Lake
shipped seven car loads OF baled hay TO
Kansas City and LeavenWOrth this weak.
They have about fifty tons yet to ship.
Farm hands are in demand and
scarce at Silver Lake; almost every day
farmers ara In town TO hire hands, but
none are 70 be had. They OFFER TO pay
$40 per month.
Grandpa Milhorn, Of Honey Greek,
was offered $3.50 a bushel for his peach
crop recantly. He will have close TO
a hundred bushels, if nothing happens
between now and picking time.
Coronado Herald: If strangers still
persist in believing western Kansas
desert they have but to 60 just One-half
mile north OF Coronado and look at the
prettieat corn crop in America on E. F.
Knapp claim.
The cheese factory of @. NJ Crosby
neae Grand Center is at present using
the milk of about IS COWS. About TO-
J 600 pounds Of fuIl-cream cheese were
manufactured IN the past twelve months,
all of which was sold in the county.
II & horse is inclined to long troubles,
be careful not to feed musty hay. 1t had
/ better be allowed TO run on grass at
night during the summer, as it will be
less liable to permanent injury. Sheaf
oats or clean Oat straw are better for
such horses than hay.
Grasses and clovers for pasturage and
hays ensilage crops and beets for green
| feed In winter; more oats ami nitrogen
GUS bye folders for balancing the winter
food ration; better blood; better manage
ment and care, are some of tue things
that are making hOrse-r raising profitable.
Howerd Democrat: Among the laws
on our statute books which is never
/ enforced, is the law requiring hedge
owners to keep them trimmed. Another
one is the law requiring weeds to be cut
on the public highways. Both are good
laws, but no attempt Is made to enforce
them.
From a farm twelve miles north OF
| Garden City, above the irrigating bitches
| the following articles were brought In as
samples and measured, showing: Corn
4 feet 5 inches; rye, 3 feet II inches;
oats, 2 feet 81 inches; alfalfa, - inches;
cabbage leaves, 49, inches long and
the desert { p without artificial supply
Of water.
South Kansas Tribune: A fifty inch
timothy sample, with heads seven and
eight inches long, was brought to our
Office by David Allen of Sycamore. His
timothy is grown on high upland which
a few years ago was considered com
paratively worthless for farming, and
most of the meadow was seeded last
| September. The tame grasses are a
success even on high lands.
Humboldt Union: The Colorado
beetle-the foe TO the pOtatoe vines
have made their appearance in this
vicinity. Last Saturday Capt. O. O.
KELSEY brought to our office some
! specimens Of these pests. They were
! lodged on and devouE5ng the Mexican
sand burrs. So long as they confne
themselves to the sand burrs all right.
But they must let the potatoes alone.
Eureka Republican: During our six
teen years residence in this county We
have never seen the crops so far advanced
at this season of the year as now. The
laying by Of corn is fully three weeks
earlier than usual. The potato crop
is simply immense, and the market has
been Supplied with new potatoes for
weeks. importers will find Greenwood
county poor market for their potatoes
this fall.
1t is best TO teach little chicks to eat
cracked corn and wheat when about
three or four weeks old. II ted contin-
ually on soft food they will take no
other, and viii even do without rather
than eat grain. The only trouble with
soft food is that it digests so rapidly
that If given all their crop will hold, in
two OF three hours it is empty, then
they are hungry all night long. A good
feed Of cracked corn and wheat at night
viii keep them cOntented.
A year or more ago Prof. E. ". Stew
art summarized the statistics Of seven
fat-stock shows, where cost Of feeding
was given by the competitors, and as
result he found that the gain Of an aver
age weIl-fed animal cost 4.G4 cents per
pound up to 1-year-O old, sos cents from
! birth up to 2 years old, and 7.49 cents
for animals up to 3 years old. Three
animals, fattened from birth, and ezhib-
tied at l, 2, and 3 years Of age, cost the
feeder 81 cents per pound of gain In TIE
fret year, 81 cents per pound Tor The
/ second year, and y cents Per pound Tor
2 the gain in the third year
Sedan Graphic: Mr.. Harris Of Little
= Cana township called at our Office last
/ week and gave us some information as
3 to the development Of the cotton culture
b in the southeast part OF the county
8 He stated that about ] 200 acres have
3 been planted in cotton this year, and
thst tie stand is the best ever obtained
and that the plants are doing hne and
promise a larger yield than IN former
vesrs. He also stated that the land he
had planted in cotton last seasOn brought
him an income OF forty dollars TO the
acre and that some Of his neignbors re-
allied more than he did on their crops.
3 He has twenty acresin cotton tins season.
:. and says thst with even half OF the yleld
, Of last year, to the acre, that the cotton
cpop OF Little Cana township this season
q viii bring more money into that neigh,
!. borhood than the combined receipts o.
ali other crops including cattle and
IT, e-v- s,v,a vsar- ever did We val